The diptych Fantôme Créole Series (Papillon, No 2) is taken from Isaac Julien’s film Fantôme Afrique (2005), a film the artist made in conversation with his earlier work True North (2004). Fantôme Afrique is set in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, a...
#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Tammy Langtry, and I am a Curatorial Assistant at Zeitz MOCAA. Currently, we are all wondering how we can make sense of this world with its constantly shifting plates...
Hello everyone, I’m Storm Janse Van Rensburg, Senior Curator at Zeitz MOCAA As I am writing this, South Africa has been 94 days in lockdown. I cannot recall when last I have been in one place for more than three months in a row. Time has gone by incredibly fast and...
#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we focus on Tunisian-born artist Mouna Karray’s series of photographs titled Noir (2013). In the series, we see a figure, staged in a...
#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Mandisa Ngqulana, and I am the Museum Educator at Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Arts Education. I got to thinking recently about Billie Holiday’s version of the song Strange...
